Yeah, that’s how under-regulated markets inevitably work: someone who has no incentive to prioritize fairness or the common good accumulate too much power and use that power to gain more power etc until only the most powerful remain and everyone else, especially consumers, suffer immensely.
You’re not wrong, no. Price controls are ABSOLUTELY necessary. Even without basic income, but of course especially with.
Corporations have demonstrated time and time again that they’ll profiteer as much as they’re allowed to.
In recent years, they’ve even stopped caring about whether people are able to afford their prices.
They cynically but correctly assume that people will spend more money than they have when the alternative is them and their families starving on the street.
Corporations are getting increasingly brazen about not valuing the lives and well-being of their customers anywhere near as highly as short term profits, and the vast majority of politicians are as spineless in regulating their own owners as always, if not even worse than they have been since almost a century ago.
He just got rich because he’s very good at what he’s doing. He didn’t have to abuse anyone for that
Bullshit. You don’t become a billionaire by just being good at what you’re doing. You seem to not grasp the enormous difference between being successful and being one of the 3000 or so richest people on the planet.
Just like you don’t become a millionaire by working really hard and well at a paper route, you don’t became a billionaire without doing a lot of sleazy and selfish stuff to amass more wealth than would otherwise be possible.
Besides, even if you hypothetically COULD become a billionaire by ethical means only, keeping that much unneeded wealth in a world where artificial scarcity is killing millions is in itself extremely unethical.
Maybe you are not good enough to be as rich as he is. Have you considered that?
Ah, the old “you’re just jealous” adage of the worshippers of unethical success 🙄
Thanks! Yeah, they probably do, the way I spoil them 😁🥰
Since I have one of each, Torties and Calicos are my joint favorites 😁
Yeah. Do you have any idea how much societal damage money hoarding does across the world?
Tens of millions of people dying needlessly every year from lack of resources hoarded by a few people who’ll never be able to spend it all.
And that’s not even getting into all the underpaid and overworked people who have acted as anonymous stepping stones on his path to obscene overabundance.
Or the fact that the richest 10% in the world, which includes all billionaires, are responsible for 48 times as many tons of CO2 per capita as the other 90%
Char is totally judging your choice in games and movies. totally.
In my defense, most of the movies are from a box of DVDs a family member wanted to get rid of, rather than anything I’ve actively chosen lol.
That being said, all of the games except the first Guitar Hero (came with the Wii), a few of the movies and all of the burned discs under Gandhi are all me 😄
Nope. It’s literally impossible to become and remain a billionaire without a ton of abusive behavior.
I’m a Democrat and the mayor of the largest city in the state, and we’re proud to host the Republican National Convention.
They really shouldn’t be proud of hosting an event that amounts to a cross between Comic Con and a Nuremberg Rally. FasCon, if you will.
Btw, Cavalier Johnson is a magnificent name for a porn star who’s either unbothered, a knight, or both 😁
Of November? I remember something about a gunpowder treason and you should too! 😛
True, they’ve become an international affair, contrary to the rules.
(Yes I know you meant that it’s a bunch of state elections in a trench coat)
And Poland.
I’ll see myself out
538 has been unreliable for several election cycles, though…
You might, but a life without avocado regrets is a life avocado-unlived 🤷
While we’re at it, the Beegees have a question for you
I’m not torrenting anything rn for reasons
Saturn in retrograde?
I don’t need to know them to know the harm of their actions.
Was NOT a billionaire or anything even remotely comparable. I don’t have anything against people who work hard and honestly achieve wealth of non-absurd proportions like her.
Again, you can work hard without being cutthroat about it. Not so with becoming and remaining a BILLIONAIRE.
No. If anything, the disgrace to her and everyone like her, who achieve wealth and success honestly, is to compare them to billionaires.
As I expected, you have no understanding of the vast difference between millions and billions, so here’s a visual aid:
The first two, and even multiples of them are within the limits of “hard work and a bit of luck”. The obscene hoard that is the third isn’t.
If you still don’t understand it, it’s probably because you don’t WANT to understand or are pathologically UNABLE to, in which point there’s no point continuing to waste my time explaining what is obvious to a third grader but not an adult with decades of brainwashing to erase all sense of proportion.